Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Rickles

When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'

Barack Obama

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

Brad Pitt

I'm satisfied with making true choices and finding the woman I love, Angie, and building a family that I love so much.

Charles Soule

I love comics work, and I hope I never stop doing it. But at the same time, I have my own law practice that I've built up over quite a while - it's been more than a decade that I've spent building that business - so it seems a little premature to just shut it down after nine months of working at a high level in comics. We'll see.

Foster Friess

Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a result of the generosity of fat cats.

Ethan Zuckerman

For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market.

Edward Carpenter

For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven.

Cullen Hightower

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Damien Rice

Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.

Yotam Ottolenghi

For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

Willie Aames

I think as Christians we have to sponsor a national Lighten-Up Day.

Willie Aames

The Jews know who they are as a people. The Christians have not come together as a people yet.

William Jay

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

Webb Simpson

I'd be stupid not to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ because it was tough out there and I was nervous, and I felt his presence all day.

Billy Graham

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

Billy Graham

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology - absolutely.

Ezra Taft Benson

Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was, 'Not my will, but thine be done.'

Ferdinand Buisson

A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

Orson Welles

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Johnny Damon

We had opportunities; we just couldn't capitalize. That's the most aggravating thing about this game. When you're not hitting and scoring runs, it dictates how well your season goes.

Gilbert Hernandez

Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.

Mitt Romney

Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do.

Zakk Wylde

For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?

David Yalof

What history dictates is even relatively weak presidents have often gone for home runs with nominees,

John Scalzi

When I'm writing a novel or doing other serious writing work, I do it on a schedule that dictates writing either 2,000 words a day or writing until noon. After I hit whichever mark comes first, then I can give my attention to everything else I have to do.

Sean Ellis

Our position dictates toughness. It's an honor to be a Carson linebacker.

Cindy Sherman

I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised.

Ernest Borgnine

My mother made me do all the housework as a boy. I still do it, even in hotels.

Abdul Latif

We prefer to stay in our house as we still have our second floor. We would leave the house and go to the shelter houses only if the water has already reached roof high.

Sarah Hall

I wander around the house and write in bed, at the kitchen table, by the window, in the yard.

Vinnie Jones

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.

Nimrat Kaur

Once while vacationing at my grandparent's house in Rajasthan, we were sleeping on the roof and I spotted an object hovering around in the sky - kind of a UFO. It totally spooked me out. I couldn't sleep for days after that.

Lee Brice

When you go to Nashville and start co-writing, you start doing it as a job and the more you do it the better you get. You know if you build houses for 30 years you're better than you were the day you started. You know the ins and outs, you know all the nuances.

Jennifer Aniston

I love seeing a house and thinking about how it should be redone or restored.

Monica Crowley

It is an abuse of power, when you are President of the United States, to use the White House to single out a single news organization, and castigate them and try to delegitimize them.

Charles Hodge

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Lord Salisbury

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Patrick O'Brian

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

Mark Tuohey

This is merely a stake in the ground. There will be no arbitration. We'll have this resolved before then. We're moving very vigorously on several fronts to finalize this matter.

Eric Rasmussen

The problem with much of that thinking is that it's taking something from today, like movies, and merely putting it on the Web.

Niels Bohr

You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.

Dan Wasserman

We don't think it's reasonable for players to be fined merely for wearing the uniform that was provided by the team.

Elliot Mintz

Janet is merely one of a number of witnesses and there is no allegation whatsoever that Janet has violated any law.

Jose Vistan

It merely compounded the problems that have been hounding the country,

Ken Cooper

The police officer starts to look more and more like a monster.

Henry Bunsow

The Patent Office has said these patents are invalid. The patents at this point, if there was the new lawsuit, would not be enforceable.

Carl Rusnok

We don't have an office there. That's part of the problem, but we're not saying that we wouldn't respond.

David A. Adler

In my office I have a sign that says, 'Don't think. Just write!' and that's how I work. I try not to worry about each word, or even each sentence or paragraph. For me, stories evolve. Writing is a process. I rewrite each sentence, each manuscript, many times.

Patricia Schroeder

The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

Scott Bauer

We'll operate in Raleigh through the loan-production office for now.

Laura Bush

You know, they probably are altered, and they probably are forgeries, and I think that's terrible, really. That's actually one of the risks you take when you run for public office or when you're in the public eye.

Ludwig von Mises

Lenin's ideal was to build a nation's production effort according to the model of the post office.

William Donaldson

Those offices have not been sitting on their hands.

Bryan Adams

I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.

Chris Hardwick

Well, you know he was just being nice. That was the only steak I had that year.

Jay Cutler

It is the steak I get when I go there.

Anna Kendrick

I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.